Tuesday, June 4, 2013

June 4, 1945:U. S. FLEET MOVING INTO JAPAN:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 4, 1945:

ENEMY'S
NAVY AIR

FORCE
CHANGED TO

CORPS
OF SUICIDES

By FRANK TREMAINK

United Press Correspondent,

Pearl Harbor, June 4. —With the
Okinawa campaign rapidly nearing an end, Japan converted her entire naval air
force into a suicide corps to protect the homeland from the rampaging American
fleet today.

Other developments in the Pacific
war included:

1-—Radio Tokyo said Japan intends
to attack the United States with piloted, bomb-carrying balloons in the "near
future."

2.—.American troops fanned out
along the south coast of Okinawa after sealing off thousands of the enemy on the
Chinen peninsula. Tokyo quoted an unconfirmed report that American units had
landed behind Japanese positions on Chinen peninsula from the sea.

3.—The American 37th Division
drove along Luzon's Cagayan Valley against light resistance. Japanese
casualties in the Philippines reached 385,480. American and Filipino casualties were 225 killed
and 657 wounded.

4.—Units
of the American Mars Task Force were revealed to be operating- in China after
helping to reopen the Burma Road.

5.—Chinese troops re-captured Chienlnang-,
90 miles northeast of Nanning-, and pursued the Japanese toward Liuchow.

6.—British troops seized two
towns on the east coast of Burma.

7.—Radio Tokyo admitted that
American and Allied spies were becoming increasingly active in Japan.

A Japanese spokesman said the
present attacks on the United States with pilotless balloon, were only the
forerunner of larger scale raids "with death-defying; Japanese airmen manning; the balloons."

The spokesman complained that the
United States had not divulged the extent of damage caused by pilotless
balloons, but surmised they were "creating havoc." He said
hundreds of this type were being- launched daily.

INTEREST
SHIFTS

TO
CAIRO, LONDON

IN LEVANT CRISIS

By PHIL
AULT

United Press Correspondent London.
June 4.—Beyrouth dispatches said today that British troops, reinforced by
marines and sailors, were moving French soldiers and civilians from all populated
areas of Syria to isolated camps to prevent further bloodshed. But chief Interest In the Levant crisis
was shifting- to London and Cairo.

In London, Prime Minister Churchill
was expected to reply in Commons to Gen. Charles De Gaulle's charge of last
Saturday that British agents were responsible for the uprising- in the Levant.

As for De Gaulle's assertion that
Syrian regulars attacked French troops with British -weapons, a British foreign
office commentator said any arms delivered to

Syrians were made "with the knowledge
and approval ofthe French.

A joint statement in Cairo by the
prime minister of Lebanon and president of the Syrian Chamber of Deputies
accused the French using lend-lease weapons in the

Levant disorders. De Gaulle
Saturday denied that such was the case, but added that as soon as lendlease
material was turned over to the French. it automatically became French.

The Cairo statement also said Lebanon
and Syria would not sign any treaty with the French.- 'It was made by Abdel
Hamid Karamah. prime minister of Lebanon and Saadullah El Gabry, president of
the Syrian Chamber of Deputies.

In Cairo, the Arab League of seven
Middle-Eastern states was meeting t day to discuss the crisis. A Cairo dispatch
said all delegates were unanimous that the

French must withdraw entirely from
Levant and that no negotiations with the French were possible.

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December 7, 1941 had a great impact on E. T. and others that remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to the attack, many of us were reporting on Current Events that led up to the outbreak of World War II, September 6, 1939. E. T. was 15 years old and living in Ellensburg Washington. The impact was profound, we lost acquaintances and friends in the attack that President Roosevelt referred to as a “DAY OF INFAMY'.
These events which were “Current Events” in 1942 to 1946 have been preserved by
“Access NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE”; E. T. is presenting copies of these files to generate an interest in our past history that should not be forgotten.
Lives were changed as America was forced into the conflict; my older brother and many of his friends were drafted or enlisted in the Military services and E. T. served in the U. S. Maritime Service and Merchant Marine on three ships during the conflict.